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...perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Mayhem & Haw. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Herman Robertson sued Clyde Hunter for $1,500 damages, declared that Hunter had bitten off his lip, and that consequently his plow mule no longer understood his directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Mayhem in Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

After Michigan scored its sixth touchdown, Coach Fritz Crisler sent his fancy first-stringers back into the game. This was no spare-the-enemy contest, or a save-yourself-for-next Saturday spirit; this was the season's end, and it was mayhem with a motive. So people thought Notre Dame was 1947's team of the year, did they? Crisler was out to set the record straight-by beating Southern California worse than Notre Dame had (38 to 7). On grass sprayed with paint to look even greener (for this was in Southern California), the Rose Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Case for Michigan | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...more than a month, mayhem and murder, rape and robbery had been rampant in Indianapolis and surrounding Marion County. Husbands armed themselves, then armed their wives. People bought watchdogs. Locksmiths did a land-office business and householders chained their doors at night. From exclusive Meridian Hills to Pat Ward's Bottoms, nerves were taut. Indianapolis had escaped race trouble during the war, but all the ingredients for an explosion were there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Frightened City | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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